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America's economic mobility, mapped

Economic mobility varies dramatically across the US. This column introduces a new interactive mapping tool that traces the roots of outcomes such as poverty and incarceration back to the ...

This is the relationship between race and economic opportunity in the US

Racial disparities in income and other outcomes are among the most visible and persistent features of American society. The sources of these disparities have been studied and debated for ...

Only half of 30 year-old Americans earn more than their parents

One of the defining features of the “American Dream” is the ideal that children have a higher standard of living than their parents. We assess whether the United States is living up to th...

Three ways to improve peer review